Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holdouts are showing some give -and take. Brigham Young lets its professors accept federal research grants. The reason is not simply, as President Wilkinson argues, that "the research we give is worth every cent we get," but also that the grants help him attract competent scholars to strengthen a generally mediocre faculty. Even Baptist opposition is softening. Such Baptist schools as Baylor, Wake Forest and Mercer have risked the ire of some church officials by accepting aid. Says M. Norvel Young, president of Los Angeles' Pepperdine College, a wavering holdout: "We'd like to paddle our own canoe...
...other cases, adult agitators fanned disturbances. Philadelphia police charged the local leaders of CORE and the Black People's Unity Movement, a small group promoting "black pride," with inciting the riot there. Parents of Negro students at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High sought the help of Ron Karenga, leader of the black separatist "Us" organization, in trying to dump a white principal. Soon adults were picketing the school. A rumor of police brutality spread when one demonstrator was arrested, and then students went on a rampage. In the end, the principal requested-and got-a transfer because...
...against venereal disease, he distributed educational pamphlets across the U.S., campaigned for widespread syphilis tests, and relentlessly tracked the sources of infection to such effect that the number of new syphilis cases dropped from 500,000 in 1936 to 314,300 in 1948, when he retired from government to help draw the charter for WHO, which now includes 128 nations...
...quick to play down his role. "The market dictates everything," says Li. "I dictate nothing." But Li's part in the island's economic emergence is well known. Educated at Cambridge University, he interrupted his graduate physics studies in 1937 and returned to China to help in the war effort. Li became an industrial planner, ran an iron-and-steel works, then set up a shipyard in Shanghai before moving to Taiwan when the mainland fell to the Communists...
...Burton version of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus was cooked up in 1966 with the help of his old drama coach at the Oxford University Dramatic Society, plus 48 undergraduate actors, plus Wife Elizabeth. Every body involved got a kick out of doing it, but Marlowe got the boot. Burton and Professor Nevill Coghill cropped lines, gouged passages, transplanted speeches and transposed sequences with complete indifference to the original...